Today
Time: 9pm
Venue: Fort St Elmo, Valletta
Entrance: €15

The Royal Northern College of Music Big Band, directed by Mike Hall, will be playing Darryl Brenzel’s arrangement of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. The concert will also include other Big Band numbers, such as Heated Think Tank by Colin Towns, Gordon Goodwin’s Hunting Wabbits, a bit of samba with a Claudio Roditi long-time favourite The Monster and the Flower, an experimental ‘Country Roads’by Maria Schneider called The Pretty Road and Bob Mintzer’s Elvin’s Mambo.

Caroline Calleja – harp recital

Today
Venue: Fortress Builders, Valletta
Time: 19:30
Entrance: €12

Caroline Calleja is first-prize winner of various competitions, and has performed extensively both in Malta and abroad. She has worked closely with internationally-renowned musicians at the Dartington International Summer School in Devon, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the Moscow State Conservatory in Russia. In 2003, Calleja was invited to tour Italy and France with the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra.

Calleja studied piano and harp performance at the Conservatoire National de Region de Lyon in France, where she was awarded the Medaille d’Or in piano and Diplôme de Fin d’Etudes with distinction in harp.

In this concert, she will be performing works by Grandjany, Zabel, Salzedo, Tailleferre and Fauré.
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